Iran latest news

The ministerial conference on the Middle East, hosted jointly by the US State Department and Polish Foreign Ministry, will be held on 13 and 14 February. The conference will focus on Iran as the main source of instability in the region. High profile delegations from several dozen countries are expected to attend.

Iran’s terrorist actions aimed at the West have resumed in recent years, so at the end of 2018, Albania expelled the Iranian ambassador and another diplomat on the basis on national security.

The US praised Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama for this decision, with Donald Trump writing him a letter to thank him for countering Iran’s “destabilizing activities and efforts to silence dissidents around the globe”.

On Monday 4th February, former FBI director Louis Freeh, spoke at a conference in Brussels regarding the Iran security threat. Other panellists at the event in the headquarters of European Parliament included former EP Vice President Alejo Vidal-Quadras, retired French journalist and former intelligence agent Claude Moniquet, member of the Iranian opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) Farzin Hashemi, former Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi and former French intelligence chef Yves Bonnet.